Wintopia

Article summary

Wintopia is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mira Burt-Wintonick and released in 2019. Originally conceived as an attempt to complete Utopia, an unfinished documentary film her father, Peter Wintonick, was working on at the time of his death in 2013, the film instead evolved into a personal essay on her relationship with him. The film premiered in November 2019 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. It screened at Canadian and international documentary film festivals in 2020, before being released to digital streaming platforms in 2021.

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1. release date: 2019 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 2021 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339104592